... the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, USA, 1937) and the apotheosis of the aesthetic in Bambi (David Hand, USA, 191). In their early incarnations in the short form, rope and circle fi gures were intrinsically ... problematize the narrative on diff erent terms and conditions. The essential questions, in another kind of formation, therefore, become those about the status and implication of the use of animation, and ... aesthetic, and are not necessarily experimental either. Further, it resists the ways in which the freedoms of animated vocabulary interrogate and redefi ne representational con-ditions, and all the...